"Competent" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Duly qualified; answer-ing all requirements; adequate; suitable; sufficient; capable; legally fit. Levee Dist. v. Jamison, 176 Mo. 557, 75 S. W. 679
Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed
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Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient;
suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me my mask!... Nor any other woman... ever, ever!... Ah, you can understand, my happiness was so great, I cried. And fell at her feet, crying... and I kissed her feet... her little feet... crying. You're crying, too, daroga... and she cried also... the angel cried!...
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